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Topic: G'day From Lansing, Michigan (Read 1085 times)

I am a hobby woodworker and have relatively recently discovered Festool products and I am smitten.

My first purchase was a R0125 after watching a vid by fellow Aussie David Stanton (check out his channel sometime).

Then, torn between upgrading my circa 2000 Triton tablesaw that I'd brought with me from Oz to a regular tablesaw or the newly discovered world of tracksaws, I decided a TS75 was the go and just received that little beauty today.

My stack of Systainers is growing - the wife is starting to see green (literally) and I'm sure will soon have to fork out some dosh for a long arm quilting machine. Say, Festool don't make those do they? Would probably come shipped in a Sewtainer.

Anyway, discovered FOG when I wanted to sell some 150 mm sanding pads that came with the Surfix kit.

Well I have lived in a few places in Oz, Melbourne where I was born, Sydney for a few years, then Adelaide and finally Brisbane before we moved to the US.

I got head-hunted by a US company to head up the Railroad Training Sim group and am now working for Union Pacific.

I will eventually head back to Oz, but I am not worried about the voltage differences. Nothing a 5,000 W step-up transformer can't handle. The only thing that annoys me is the imperial measurement system. While I grew up with imperial for a while, we swapped to metric in the 70's and for woodworking and general measurements I love working in metric. Festool's recent decision to move to imperial here in the US was a bummer.

That having been said, the underlying notches on the tool (TS 75) are metric, so I know that beneath its imperial exterior, there beats a metric heart!

Southern Cross station - that's the old Spencer St station in Melbourne isn't it?